> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com]
> >
> > With the latest kernel you can have the matrox driver
> compiled with i2c
> > support without having i2c support in the kernel. This
> causes the compile
> > to fail. This patch fixes this. It test to see if you have
> i2c support
> > selected.
>
> IMHO I2C is such a low-level bus, the user might not know to select it
> until it is too late.
>
> Why not instead have
>
> define_tristate CONFIG_I2C $CONFIG_FB_MATROX
v4l is the same way. If you forget to choose the right i2c (or don't choose
bit-banging), then it crashes on compile. Well, at least last time I
compile in v4l this happened...
The above looks good.
Brad Douglas
brad@neruo.com
http://www.linux-fbdev.org
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